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Bio:

Dr Nafeez Ahmed is a bestselling
author and political scientist specialising in international security
issues, violent conflict, and global crisis. He is Executive Director
of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in London, and
Strategy Director for the Creative Education Programme at Arts Versa
Consultants where he has consulted for projects funded by the HM Government’s
Department for Communities & Local Government and the US Embassy
in London. He is Associate Tutor at the Department of International
Relations, University of Sussex, and has lectured at Brunel University’s
Politics & History Unit at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels,
teaching courses in international relations theory, contemporary history,
empire and globalization. He is on the Executive Committee of the British
Muslim Human Rights Centre at London Metropolitan University’s Human
Rights & Social Justice Institute and is a former Senior Researcher
at the Islamic Human Rights Commission in London, an NGO in Consultative
Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.